Steven Pinker Quote

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places, paths, motions, agency, and causation underlie the literal or figurative meanings of tens of thousands of words and constructions, not only in English but in every other language that has been studied.


How the Mind Works (ed. Penguin UK, 2003) - ISBN: 9780141927879


Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts...

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts...

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts...

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts...